All posts in the topic Greater Wellington Regional Council - Metlink Transport Routes Data (Short link)
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- Latest post made by Glen Barnes at Jan 22 12:02 NZDT
FYI a fairly exhaustive set of Wellington's transport data (bus, train, ferry timetables, routes, etc) is available at http://www.metlink.org.nz/google-transit-feed/ This is basically a bunch of fairly easy to parse text files in a zip archive. Not an API, but better than scraping HTML! This is the dataset that is given to Google to power the Google Transit system at maps.google.com. I hope to see in 2010 these datasets progress along the continuum towards open govt data principles; I understand the council is keen but there are squeakier wheels elsewhere to focus on. For instance, Wellington will have real time knowledge of vehicle locations soon. Cheers, Sig (PS: SilverStripe rebuilt the metlink website this month, so happy to pass on feedback, suggestions, et cetera.)
hi
On the subject of transport and Google, Google Maps for Bangkok now
has color coding for the live traffic conditions, green for go (ie
traffic is moving), orange for iffy and red for sloth. I can vouch
from personal experience that they might as well set up a cron job to
turn the roads red at 1700...
And auckland has (finally) been added to Google Transit this week (buses only at this stage, and seems to make the assumption we have integrated ticketing...) http://google-newzealand.blogspot.com/2009/12/mapping-out-public-transit-options-in.html If anyone knows the feed URL please send it around, otherwise i'll get in touch with ARTA about it. Rob :)
Wow - I've been off the Open Data gig for a while with the paying gig :-(
I submitted an OIA request to get the feed url for Wellington ages ago and the
reply got stuck in my spam folder. Good to see it is finally live.
ROB: Do you have a contact at ARTA to get the Auckland url?
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